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Strange disease resurfaces in FGGC Bwari The strange disease which hit at least 60 students of Federal Government Girls’ College, Bwari in the FCT last June has resurfaced in the school. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this time around, only a few students have been infected, although the number could not be ascertained. The Principal of the school, Mrs. Funmi Gold, declined to speak when NAN sought her reaction yesterday, saying through a security man: “I did not invite any journalist here so I don’t want to see you.” She also instructed the security men to shut the gate against anyone seeking information about the ailment. The NAN correspondent, however, observed that a van belonging to Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Hospital, Bwari was stationed in the school, apparently to evacuate any new cases. A visit to the hospital showed that one student was on admission, having been brought there on Monday. NAN learnt that most of the new cases, including the daughter of a renowned Abuja-based broadcaster, had been taken away by their parents for medical attention elsewhere. The minister of Health, Prof. Eyitayo Lambo, had said in June that the government would fully investigate the cause of the infection. The minister, who paid an assessment visit to the college, said samples had been taken for laboratory analysis both within the country and abroad. The infection later assumed epidemic proportions, following which anxious parents besieged the school to take away their wards. The disease was described as “discriminative disorder or mass adolescent hysteria” by the minister of state for Health, Princess Olufunke Adedoyin. The minister of Education, Prof. Fabian Osuji, said the ailment was caused by examination fever. The sickness, dubbed ‘jerking’ or ‘adult polio’ by the students, weakens the limbs of the infected and makes them to shake vigorously. MORE ON ABJ....

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